Sentences with phrase «affects brain»

«So not surprisingly how we sleep affects the brain.»

«Alcohol affects the brain and body in many ways,» said Richter, who was not involved in the study.

And, because food affects our brain chemistry, we can eat our emotions away without really honoring them.

She decided to conduct a study, looking at how reading affects the brain.

All kinds of nicotine use are unsafe for teenagers because it affects brain development, according to the 2014 Surgeon General's report.

Finally, we are interested in how neurodegenerative disease affects the brain at the stem cell level.

We are also exploring the role of the endogenous cannabinoid (endocannabinoid) system in fetal brain development and investigating how prenatal cannabis exposure affects brain development and later behaviors.

A new study revealed that addiction to social media sites affects the brain in a similar way that cocaine does.

As its name implies, FTD is a fatal disease that destroys cells, or neurons, that comprise the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain — as opposed to Alzheimer's which mainly affects brain's memory centers in the hippocampus.

«By finding a new way to detect and track how Parkinson's affects the brain, this study provides an important tool for assessing whether a drug might slow or stop those changes and keep symptoms from getting worse,» said NINDS Program Director Dr. Daofen Chen.

Molfese and a team of other researchers want to know more about how a concussion affects the brain.

«The physical symptoms that affect people with Parkinson's — including tremors and rigidity of movement — are caused by an imbalance between two types of medium spiny neurons in the brain,» said Dr. Kreitzer, whose lab studies how Parkinson's disease affects brain functions.

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«By discovering how the removal of RGS4 affects brain circuitry at the molecular level, we gained a deeper understanding of the protein's role — both normally and in Parkinson's disease,» said Dr. Lerner.

Researchers studying worms have discovered new information on a gene that is involved in the development of Joubert syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the brain stem.

Selective targeting of the neurotransmitter that differentially affects brain cells that control the two distinct functions of the pancreas may allow for new medication therapies for conditions like diabetes, dyspepsia and gastro - esophageal reflux.

Taken together, these findings tell us more about how cannabis affects the brain and the mind.

The finding correlates with a past study that revealed stress, including physical abuse, experienced during childhood significantly affects brain development.

«Understanding how the environment affects our brain is important,» says co-author Dr. Amir - Homayoun Javadi, who ran the brain imaging analysis at UCL, and is now at the University of Kent.

Dr Colasanti said: «This study, combining two advanced complementary brain imaging methods, suggests that the inflammation of the hippocampus affects the brain function and causes depression.»

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE)(also called portosystemic encephalopathy) is a condition where liver disease affects brain functioning.

Future work by the group will focus on testing the effectiveness of CAST training in a larger sample using neurophysiological measures to examine how the training affects brain systems.

Ami Albernaz reports for The Boston Globe on a new study co-authored by Prof. John Gabrieli that finds that income disparity affects brain development in children.

Future studies should examine the possibility that there may be biological differences in the molecular mechanisms through which testosterone affects brain and behavior in men and women.

«There is still much we need to understand about how HIV affects the brain and several findings from this study are highly relevant to this field of NeuroAIDS,» said Dr. Ndhlovu.

A series of studies have previously shown that the parasite affects the brain of infected rats so that they lose fear of cats and even become attracted to cats» smell, making them an easy prey.

And included among the genes that follow this pattern is one that critically affects brain development and maternal care behavior.

Based on previous studies that identified how nicotine affects brain chemistry, Kim and his colleagues hypothesized that metformin might eliminate anxiety, irritability and other withdrawal symptoms.

Although scientists know that depression affects the brain, they don't know why some people respond to treatment while others do not.

AD is characterized by plaques composed of amyloid β - protein (Aβ) and tangles composed of Tau protein; accumulation of Aβ protein leads to disruption of Tau and, eventually, neurodegeneration which affects brain regions in a variety of ways.

Although ALS primarily affects motor neurons leading to impaired mobility, speech, swallowing, and respiratory function and FTD affects brain regions that support higher cognitive function, some patients have symptoms of both disorders.

Other studies suggest that the nutrient uridine also affects brain function.

The finding, published October 28, 2015 in the journal Nature, is among the first to show at a cellular level how the disorder affects the brain.

In the first known study of its kind, researchers have shown that the language we learn as children affects brain structure, as does hearing status.

One theory of autistic savantism suggests that during fetal development or early in life, some developmental abnormality affects the brain's left side, resulting in the difficulties that many autistic people have with words and social interaction, functions typically processed by the left hemisphere.

DHA or docosahexaenoic acid is an essential long - chain fatty acid that affects brain and eye development, and babies derive it from their mothers before birth and up to age two.

Ketamine affects the brain's opioid system, which can naturally become active even without drugs when animals are under attack, suggesting trauma might set off this aspect of near - death experiences, Mobbs explains.

The team is looking at how each affects the brain and whether brain markers can predict response to a particular treatment.

«People think they know how marijuana affects the brain,» Hurd says.

But matter it does, since the effect of mercury on birds provides information about how the heavy metal affects the brain.

«How visual attention affects the brain.»

A PEEK inside the minds of hypersocial people with Williams syndrome has revealed how the genetic disorder affects the brain.

The language you speak not only affects your brain's structure, it influences how you see the world and who you are.

«New possibility of studying how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain at different ages.»

As psychologist Douglas A. Gentile of Iowa State University puts it, whatever we practice repeatedly affects the brain.

The thyroid also affects the brain.

What they determined after further tests, however, was that she had multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system and was causing optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause a partial or complete loss of vision.

They got similar results when they engineered mice to lack another immune molecule, suggesting that B2M is part of a pathway that affects the brain.

«We've looked explicitly to see how the estrus cycle affects the brain across different stages of the cycle,» he says.

For now, we can be certain that religion affects the brain — we just are not certain how.